Facebook’s Next Revenue Opportunities: Search, Messaging And VR
Facebook smashed revenue expectations in its most recent quarter as its focus on video and mobile paid off, but it is already looking to the next wave of revenues and positioning itself to win in search, messaging and virtual reality. Facebook’s ad revenues soared in its most recent quarter as a focus on video and […]
Virtual Reality Captures The Next Generation
The first New Zealand-made virtual reality film has been showcased to a captive audience of children. They stepped into the world of the Green Fairy for a special viewing at Auckland Central Library. It’s taking storytelling to the next level – and New Zealand is leading the way. Alejandro Davilla and his small team of six have […]
Virtual Realtiy Car Crashes Come To The Classroom
School children in the U.K. are learning how it feels to be in a car crash through a virtual reality simulation that is “as close to real-life as possible.” Students in Leicestershire, England, are experiencing the traffic collisions as part of a new road safety scheme that is a collaboration between Samsung Electronics and the […]
Embracing The Future Of VR Art Atop A Rooftop Tiki Bar
Virtual Reality and New Media Demos, an art-exhibition-meets-happy-hour organized by Artsy, Moving Image, and SIXTY LES hotel explored VR and AR’s future as artistic mediums. Held at Tiki Tabu, the rooftop bar of the SIXTY LES, the event showcased four eclectic VR and AR art projects accompanied by infused drinks. Will this be the future […]
How Should We Move Around In VR? Nobody Has Figured It Out Yet
Teaching you brain to accept bizarre movement is part of learning to use VR Along with all of the exclusivity debates that have embroiled much of the talk surrounding virtual reality for the past few months, another discussion has been ongoing among gamers, developers, and onlookers: What’s the best way to get about in virtual […]
Why VR Will Revolutionize Education
Using virtual reality in education is no longer a fantasy, but a reality for numerous companies and educational institutions. The creation of VR content can substantially enhance the field of education, bringing multiple advantages and opportunities to the traditional classroom. Although there are several threats to a successful integration of VR in the field of […]
Want To See The Future? Put On Those Weird Goggles
Augmented reality and virtual reality is seen to be adopted across industries by 2025. Gitex Technology Week to put premium focus on booming sector If you’ve slipped on some of those sometimes-weird-looking binoculars that immerse you into a whole new world of VR and AR, you’ve just taken a peek into how the future will […]
VR Has Its Roots In Ancient Rome
Probably my favorite virtual reality experience was unearthed around 1863 in the Roman suburb of Prima Porta. Well, it’s not a virtual reality experience as much as it’s an illusionistic fresco on four walls, but bear with me. In the villa of Livia Drusilla (58 BCE-29 CE), the wife of the first emperor of Rome, […]
We Tried Ghostbusters: Dimension, The World’s Most Emmersive VR Experience
At Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Times Square today, we got to try out one of the world’s most expensive and immersive virtual reality experiences. On July 1st, Sony and a Utah startup called The Void will open Ghostbusters: Dimension, which lets you become a ghostbuster in what The Void likes to call a “hyper-real” […]
Is The Future Of VR NVIDIA, Sony And Apple?
Virtual reality is all the buzz nowadays. And why wouldn’t it be when analysts like Goldman Sachs make estimates that the industry is poised to surpass the TV market in annual revenue by 2025. That would make virtual reality bigger than TV in less than 10 years. These estimates are so massive because the breakthrough […]